January 22 2016
Discovering something
about a Loved One
An obvious way of doing this
would be to go in for some ‘guilty secret’, but of course it the secret could
be something they’d kept out of modesty, or because of the pain talking about
it causes them. Or it could be just
talking to someone and finding the joy of intimacy with them, confiding things,
being trusted with their thoughts.
Suppose you found that your
mother had once worked as a trapeze artist in the circus? Or your father had a medal for
bravery? Or at last you’ve found someone
whom you can tell about a really terribly embarrassing experience in your
youth?
Sometimes we find out things
about loved ones after they are dead, perhaps going through their things. We might find some simple thing like a cheap
present you bought for them one day the seaside, but kept ‘for ever’.
There are awful things too, of
course, a letter from a friend, never sent, but confessing they had never really loved you, but stayed
out of ‘friendship’ or duty. You could
build a story out of this, going through the celebration of an
anniversary/funeral, friends, speeches,
gifts, and then this discovery right at the end.
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